[Game] Kings @ Timberwolves - 3/23/16 - 5 PT, 8 PT
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Iced Espresso
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0-2 I believe vs them this year. Cuz out. Like our tank chances.
Why is Cousins out?
Section 101
All-Star
Hurt his knee falling in the last game.
Glenn
Hall of Famer
Because AD is out for the season.
How can we tank when our default outcome is losing?
Bricklayer
Don't Make Me Use The Bat
Perhaps you haven't seen us play without Cousins these, oh 3 or 4 years
Man, that makes this team barely watchable. Minny can lose to anybody at any time, but without Cuz, its they who have more talent on the floor.
k_dubb90
Bench
I'm trying to be optimistic here lolPerhaps you haven't seen us play without Cousins these, oh 3 or 4 years
Man, that makes this team barely watchable. Minny can lose to anybody at any time, but without Cuz, its they who have more talent on the floor.
Glenn
Hall of Famer
Help me translate Karl-speak. He just said it is always a tough decision to play either all out or "tank." He didn't say tank but that's what he meant. OK I get that. He followed it up with saying (paraphrase) that the number of minutes Willie gets depends on the goal of the game. Sometimes you want to play to win because the games are very competitive. If we were playing to win, he would limit Willie's minutes. Willie would get a lot of minutes if we were tanking.
I wasn't listening closely as he tends to put me to sleep. Can anybody confirm what I thought I heard?
I wasn't listening closely as he tends to put me to sleep. Can anybody confirm what I thought I heard?
If that's his criteria for putting Willie in the game, maybe we should have just told coach we were tanking from the beginning?
Iced Espresso
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You know the difference between the 6th spot and 10th is 3 games right? Anything helps.
It looks like Rondo and Rudy are playing pretty well to me. That aborted alley-oop to Koufos was a weird play, but I assume he was held down and the refs didn't see it because it didn't look like a miscommunication.
Glenn
Hall of Famer
Either he was told he could humiliate Rubio or he decided that himself. It's working.
I think I figured out the Willie comment. Karl's approach to a close game is to fill the floor with shooters and Willie is not a shooter.
I kinda like this wolves team.
Towns and Wiggins is a great foundation to build around. Wiggins will probably need a 3pt shot at some point, but it's scary to think about how good Towns is going to be if he's already this good as a rookie.
LPKingsFan
All-Star
It's hard to tell whether Towns and Wiggins are just such exceptional prospects that nothing else matters, but I feel like they 've done a good job rebuilding while still not conceding "culture" and letting the rookies develop bad habits. They brought in vets like KG and Prince (and Martin and Miller, for half a season at least) to set the tone. It's a stark contrast to how for so long we seemed to just let all our rookies run loose, and with no veteran stability or leadership.
But Mitchell stupidly started both for half a season and cost Lavine and Dieng valuable developmental time. I'm all for having vets like that on the team, but it was seriously mind-boggling watching those guys get 15-20 minutes and starting.
It certainly seems like they have a plan anyway, which is more than you could say for this franchise the last 10 years which has been about nothing but dismantling, tanking, acquiring talent regardless of fit, and changing coaches like you change your socks.
Bah! ****ing Wednesdays... 
I see I didn't miss much to write home about, though.
If that's a joke, I don't get it.
So much for that idea.
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